Black Holes in Active Galaxies

Preprint

15 October 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0310436

Abstract

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the quest to detect supermassive black holes in the centers of nearby galaxies, and gas-dynamical measurements of the central masses of active galaxies have been valuable contributions to the local black hole census. This review summarizes measurement techniques and results from observations of spatially resolved gas disks in active galaxies, and reverberation mapping of the broad-line regions of Seyfert galaxies and quasars. Future prospects for the study of black hole masses in active galaxies, both locally and at high redshift, are discussed.

Keywords

PROSPECTS FOR THE STUDY
MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
DETECT SUPERMASSIVE
SUPERMASSIVE BLACK
GALAXIES RECENT
ACTIVE GALAXIES
BLACK HOLE

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